Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...League football season is so short--teams play only 10 games total, seven counting for conference standings--that a team that loses its first few games all but eliminates itself from competition for the league crown. This year, for example, after losing its first two games, highly touted Princeton only sealed a final nail in its coffin by losing to the Crimson at Soldiers Field on Oct. 23. With three losses, they were finished, and the balance of the season was good only to salvage some Tiger pride...
...Harvard squash dynasty--men's national champions from 1994-1998 and women's champions from 1993-1997--came to a screeching halt last year, as for the first time in seven years, neither of Harvard's teams took home a national crown...
...Crimson pursue team championships this year, there are also national individual squash titles up for grabs. Wyant, who lost in the NISRA finals last year, has the best chance among both the men and women to walk away with a crown...
...feelings about this decline in the prestige of the Crown are ambivalent. When I was a little kid my father explained that the surname Jenkins--unusual in a Hispanic country like Costa Rica--was the legacy of an old English miner who had migrated to Central America in the late nineteenth century. Right then and there I became a fierce Anglophile...
...integral part of this squad, which finished 14-2-1 and won the Ivy League crown with the third perfect mark (7-0) since all eight schools began sponsoring women's soccer in 1991, and which entered the NCAA tournament as the No. 7 team in the country, was the talented freshman unit...